Production Support Engineer

Hedge Fund; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Hedge Fund as part of the Trading Operations Team. In this multifaceted role, you'll focus on safeguarding trading systems, troubleshooting applications, and automating infrastructure. The position requires technical expertise in Linux and scripting languages, offering a unique opportunity to enhance trading performance through collaboration with various internal departments.

Qualifications

• Must have a degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Proficient in programming languages: Python, Go, JavaScript, or C++.
• Experience with Unix/Linux is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Gain expertise in trading application stacks, troubleshoot issues.
• Implement monitoring solutions and automate infrastructure management.
• Conduct user acceptance testing and enhance operational processes.

Skills

Python

Go

JavaScript

C++

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

University degree in Computer Science, Maths or quantitative fields

Tools

Unix/Linux

Windows

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Job Description

As a member of our Trading Operations Team, you will work within our technology landscape to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems, as well as the related hardware. In this role, you will have ownership of technical related issues for our in house trading applications and your actions will directly contribute to the performance of the company. You will get the opportunity to interact and work closely with different departments to gain a well-rounded knowledge of our proprietary trading applications, how they function and how they are continuously developed.

In this role, you will act as an SRE, Operations Engineer and Developer.

What you will do;

• Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks, contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast paced environment and implement solutions
• Write, test and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to provide insight to the health and performance of our trading environment
• Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions
• Work closely with Cloud SREs to operate our distributed systems landscape
• Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management
• Build, use and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software
• Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
• Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows

What you need to succeed;

• University degree in Computer Science, Maths or other quantitative fields
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Proficiency with any of the following programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C++)
• Basic knowledge and interest in the field of networking is advantageous
• Knowledge of technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, GCP is a plus
• Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills
• Good communication skills
• Good decision making and problem solving skills